Even If You Have to Crawl | Domestic Violence, Solo Parenting, and Starting Over

For The Hayters: The Stories We Survive · May 31, 2026 · 44m

Trigger Warning: This episode contains detailed descriptions of domestic violence, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and coercive control.

Lauren spent four years inside a relationship that cost her almost everything — her safety, her money, her freedom, and pieces of herself she's still recovering. She left with a one-year-old son, no car, and nowhere to go. What happened next wasn't a clean start. It was a slow, unsteady crawl back toward a life that actually looked like her.

This is what surviving looks like when it isn't pretty.

Interview, narration, and editing by Becky Hayter, with…